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    The highest averages, divisor, or divide-and-round methods are a family of apportionment rules, i.e. algorithms for fair division of seats in a legislature...
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    The Huntington–Hill method, sometimes called method of equal proportions, is a highest averages method for assigning seats in a legislature to political...
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  • It belongs to the class of highest-averages methods. Compared to ideal proportional representation, the D'Hondt method reduces somewhat the political...
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    The Webster method, also called the Sainte-Laguë method (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t.la.ɡy]), is a highest averages apportionment method for allocating...
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    apportionment methods can be categorized into largest remainder methods and highest averages methods. Malapportionment is the creation of electoral districts...
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    popular highest averages methods (also called divisor methods). By far the most common quota method are the largest remainders or quota-shift methods, which...
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    chosen highest averages method, modify the regional divisors such that the apportionment within the region is correct with the chosen highest averages method...
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    apportionment methods can be classified into two categories: The highest averages method (or divisor method), including the D'Hondt method (Jefferson method) is...
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    seats using a highest averages method, the first vote constituency seats already won are taken into account when calculating party averages, with the aim...
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  • parliament, a kind of a highest-averages method This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Adams method. If an internal link led...
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    are wasted than under STV.[original research?] The D'Hondt method is a highest averages method that allocates seats by dividing each party's total votes...
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    {\displaystyle n/k} (though the divisor can be slightly different; see highest averages method). The EAR goes rank by rank, starting at rank 1 which corresponds...
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  • proportional representation using a 5% electoral threshold and the highest averages method to allocate seats. The elections used a restricted roll, which...
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    matchups. In systems with absolute rating categories such as score and highest median methods, it is not clear how the majority criterion should be defined. There...
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    different methods of allocating seats in proportional representation systems. There are two main methods: highest average and largest remainder. Highest average...
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    Coombs' method is a ranked voting system. Like instant-runoff (IRV-RCV), Coombs' method is a sequential-loser method, where the last-place finisher according...
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  • (numerical analysis) Finite volume method (numerical analysis) Highest averages method (voting systems) Method of exhaustion Method of infinite descent (number...
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    STAR voting (section Method)
    Democracy Relative utilitarianism Highest median voting rules—similar voting method, based on medians instead of averages and verbal appreciations instead...
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    closed party lists are used, with the two seats distributed using a highest averages method. The Senate (Sénat) has 33 members, 22 members elected by the regions...
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    Australian Capital Territory. It was one of the first uses of the Gregory method for transfers of winner's surplus votes. The name is derived from the names...
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  • contingent vote, Young's method, first past the post, and Black fail, even though they pass the majority-favorite criterion. The Schulze method, ranked pairs, instant-runoff...
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    Bucklin voting is a class of voting methods that can be used for single-member and multi-member districts. As in highest median rules like the majority judgment...
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    ranks as weights; these systems are called positional voting. In the Borda method, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd... candidates on each ballot receive 1, 2, 3... points...
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    create hybrid election methods that are called Nanson method and Baldwin method (also called Total Vote Runoff or TVR). Both methods are designed to satisfy...
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    their treatment of ties, i.e., the method of ranking the candidates with the same median rating. Proponents of highest median rules argue that they provide...
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    Ranked pairs (redirect from Tideman method)
    Ranked Pairs (RP), also known as the Tideman method, is a tournament-style system of ranked voting first proposed by Nicolaus Tideman in 1987. If there...
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    get either 10 or 11 seats. The most common apportionment methods (the highest averages methods) violate the quota rule in situations where upholding it...
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    Score voting (redirect from Average voting)
    give each candidate a numerical score, and the candidate with the highest average score is elected. Score voting includes the well-known approval voting...
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    proportional representation. Remainder seats are distributed using the highest averages method. The weight of a member's vote is determined by the population...
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    The Copeland or Llull method is a ranked-choice voting system based on counting each candidate's pairwise wins and losses. In the system, voters rank candidates...
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